Menace
Alternative title: CopperCon1 [Prerelease name] alias Draconia [Prerelease name]
Platform: Amiga 500
Region: Europe
Media: Floppy
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Shoot 'em Up - Side-Scrolling - Sci-Fi
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1988
Developer: DMA Design Limited
Publisher: Psygnosis Limited
Players: 1 Player
Relationship: Precursor to Blood Money
Hardware: OCS
Conversions: Atari ST, Commodore 64
Disks: 1
Programmer: Dave Jones
Musician: David Whittaker
Designer: Tony Smith
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Six ruthless dictators have collaborated to create the planet Draconia, which contains some of the most gruesome and harmful life-forms imaginable, all indulging in some rather unsavoury actions. Thus, you must go in your spaceship to destroy them all.

The game is a side-scrolling R-Type-influenced shoot 'em up consisting of six visually-diverse levels. Waves of enemies come towards you to be shot, and reveal tokens, which when shot at will cycle through several available weapons. These include lasers, cannons, improved ship power and a shield.
 
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TRIVIA:

[1] Reviewed under its pre-release title, DRACONIA (Commodore User, July 88, pp50-51), the game was renamed to MENACE presumably because of the release of a C64 game by Zeppelin entitled DRACONUS [Sources: Commodore User, Aug 88, p7; The Complete History of DMA Design website].

[2] Before DRACONIA, the game had yet another pre-release title in the form of COPPERCON1, which was inspired by the name of an Amiga hardware register [Source: The Complete History of DMA Design website, http://javalemmings.com/DMA/DMA1_5.htm].

http://hol.abime.net/2448
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CHEATS:

Type xr31turbonutterbastard during game play
to enable cheat mode, with extra shields, cannon and lasers.

Cheat mode (alternate):
Type xr31 turbo nutter bastard during game play
to enable cheat mode.  Press 1 through 8 to advance
to the corresponding level, or press [Enter] for extra
weapons.
